[Javert rolls the glass in his palm and bends over the table. He speaks with clarity, full of conviction. Every word he says is 100% true, Majima.]
I have long since broken my principles, unpardonably so. I am not your better. I have long since decided I am exactly where I belong, and I am precisely what I deserve to be. You tell me you are a gang member, that you were an assassin, that you scorned the law? Fine. I do not have the ground to stand on to cut you to size for it. I shall not do it.
[He makes an odd hissing sound through his teeth and lifts his chin out of his collar.]
You have been nothing but dependable and decent with me. That would be a bad business, to behave like an ingrate. It would be unjust.
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[Javert rolls the glass in his palm and bends over the table. He speaks with clarity, full of conviction. Every word he says is 100% true, Majima.]
I have long since broken my principles, unpardonably so. I am not your better. I have long since decided I am exactly where I belong, and I am precisely what I deserve to be. You tell me you are a gang member, that you were an assassin, that you scorned the law? Fine. I do not have the ground to stand on to cut you to size for it. I shall not do it.
[He makes an odd hissing sound through his teeth and lifts his chin out of his collar.]
You have been nothing but dependable and decent with me. That would be a bad business, to behave like an ingrate. It would be unjust.